Monitoring of Epidermal Growth Factor Degradation Products by High‐Performance Liquid Chromatography

• Published in: Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society Vol. 39; no. 7; pp. 864 - 867
• Main Authors: Kim, Hyunbin, Seo, Chan, Ji, Moongi, Kim, Youngbae, Kim, Jung Dong, Jeong, Do Hyeon, Lee, Wonjae, Paik, Man‐Jeong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA 01.07.2018; 대한화학회
• Subjects: Epidermal growth factor; High‐performance liquid chromatography; Purity test; Quality control; 화학
• ISSN: 1229-5949; 0253-2964; 1229-5949
• DOI: 10.1002/bkcs.11488

Epidermal growth factor (EGF) has an anti‐aging effect of skin. In this study, a HPLC method was developed to monitor of EGF degradation products from pure EGF as a cosmetic raw material. The optimized mobile phase was 7.5 mM sodium phosphate buffer (pH 6.8) at flow rate of 0.6 mL/min. In the method validation of pure EGF, it showed good linearity (r ≥ 0.999) with a detection limit of 0.5 ng/mL. Intra‐ and inter‐day repeatability as a percentage of relative standard deviation (%RSD) varied from 0.01‐2.1, and accuracy was 1.1 as the percentage of relative error (%RE). Under optimized conditions, four peaks of pure EGF and three degradation products were observed after storage at room temperature for 12 days. Pure EGF represented as 97.78 ± 0.03% from the total area of the four peaks, whereas the three unknown peaks showed as 0.53 ± 0.01%, 0.61 ± 0.01%, and 1.08 ± 0.01%, respectively. The present method will be useful for the purity and stability tests of EGF in cosmetic materials and products.